S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3579 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 25, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BONACIC, RANZENHOFER, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommunications AN ACT to amend the rural electric cooperative law, in relation to the definition of rural areas THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 2 of the rural electric cooper- 2 ative law is amended to read as follows: 3 (c) "Rural areas" means any area of the state not included within the 4 boundaries of any city or village having a population in excess of [one] 5 TWENTY thousand inhabitants. 6 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09460-01-1